Word: occured
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...People may have to stop sneezing around pigs: swine, too, have been getting influenza lately. The Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association says that no connection between human and pig influenza has been proved, but observes darkly that flu tends to occur in both species at the same time. As among people, flu deaths among swine have been...
...usually 1.88 times the length of his thigh bone plus 813.06 mm.). A person's bones "almost literally punch a time clock" as he grows. Sure clues are the uniting of long bones to their caps and the successive disappearance of sutures (seams) in the skull, which occur at precisely known stages in a man's life. Some Krogman performances...
Culture Marches. But the crowning event of the Metropolitan's jubilee opening did not occur on the stage. It was the achievement of Mrs. Henry L. Doherty, widow of the utilities magnate (Cities Service). Seated among Manhattan's beauty and chivalry in the Metropolitan's bar, over a bottle of vintage '28 champagne, plump, vigorous Mrs. Doherty treated a press photographer to a fine demonstration of the simple, or one-ply, nose-thumb. The gesture had true sweep, high photogenic quality (see cut), and was generally conceded to be the most striking cultural event...
...primitive Arabic, Ramadan means "intense heat." Though it has no fixed date in the Western calendar and may occur even in winter, this year's Ramadan of 29 days appropriately broke right into the hottest summer that Egypt remembers. The damp caused by the flooding Nile spread low clouds like woolen blankets over Egypt. Tempers rose, gharry drivers and porters spit abuse at one another, fists went into action on the slightest provocation. Even unfasting, infidel Christians seemed unduly cross...
...Weather in many parts of the U.S. fluctuates in a 23-year pattern; periods of maximum rainfall and drought occur at about that interval. By studying cycles, a scientist was able to forecast accurately in 1939 some of 1942's big floods...